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Eight voting members from 72 Contributing Organizations, elected through an election process.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Theoretical Physics, Sweden , Tommy Ohlsson, Professor Los Alamos National Laboratory, US, Carol Hoover, Digital Information Resources Manager (6-year term ending December 2018)
Tommy Ohlsson is a full professor in theoretical physics at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His research field is theoretical particle physics, particularly neutrino physics and physics beyond the so-called Standard Model. He is an author of around 90 scientific publications (most of them are available on arXiv) and one textbook "Relativistic Quantum Physics" published at Cambridge University Press. Recently, he has joined the debate about Open Access publishing, especially focusing on the "green" arXiv model (see Nature 489, 367; 2012). He has also written a popular science text about the theory of special relativity at Nobelprize.org.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, US , Carol Hoover, Digital Information Resources Manager (6-year term ending December 2019)
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Carol has been managing digital collections at LANL for over 10 years. She understands core science areas/R&D at LANL, actively seeks to integrate OA content into the Library collections and champions OA with LANL researchers. She has been a member of the SCOAP3 Technical Working Group, helping to develop the specifications for the market tender, and is now a US representative on the SCOAP3 Governing Council. She has served on Carol has been managing digital collections at LANL for over 10 years. She understands core science areas/R&D at LANL, actively seeks to integrate OA content into the Library collections and champions OA with LANL researchers. She has been a member of the SCOAP3 Technical Working Group, helping to develop the specifications for the market tender, and is now a US representative on the SCOAP3 Governing Council. She has served on many publisher Library Advisory Boards and has a strong and deep working knowledge of publishing business models, issues in scholarly publishing and budgeting and business practices across federal government libraries. She received a 2011 LANL Distinguished Performance Award for her work setting up a DOE complex-wide consortia licensing model for subscription-based content.
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Anne Bell has extensive international experience working at University Librarian and Director level within large, research-intensive institutions in both Australia and the U.K. Anne has been University Librarian at the University of Sydney since 2012, having previously been the University Librarian at the University of Warwick (UK) and Director of Library Services at King’s College London (UK). Anne has undertaken multiple professional leadership roles in both the UK and Australia including Chair of the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries (UK); Vice Chair and then Chair of SCONUL (Society of College, National & University Libraries) and is currently Deputy President of CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians). As Chair of SCONUL Anne initiated a number of developments around the library systems landscape as well as the UK Libraries of the Future project (http://www.sconul.ac.uk/page/libraries-of-the-future) which was a joint collaboration between the British Library, the JISC, the Research Information Network (RIN), Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and SCONUL. Anne has also served on a number of regional vendor advisory boards as well as being a trustee on the Board of Eduserv (a UK not-for-profit technology solutions company that supports education, health, and other public sector organisations) and a Director of Intersect (a body which delivers e-research infrastructure to Australian universities).
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Society Members, Scott Delman, Director of Publications for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), US (1-year pilot implementation)
Scott Delman has been working in the scholarly publishing industry for over 25 years and currently serves as the Director of Publications for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), where he has overall responsibility for editorial, content development, publications policy, rights & permissions, production, Digital Library sales & marketing, and publications strategy, including ACM’s longterm transition to Open Access. Prior to joining ACM, Scott served in a number of senior and executive level management positions at Springer and Kluwer, including Vice President for Publishing and Vice President for Electronic Publishing at Kluwer Academic Publishers and Vice President for Business Development at Springer before leaving and joining ACM over a decade ago. In addition to his current role at ACM, Scott is actively involved in the governance of a number of the scholarly publishing industry’s most innovative and impactful non-profits, including Crossref, where Scott serves as the organization's Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors, CHORUS, where Scott serves as Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors, and as a Member of the Portico Advisory Committee.
University of California, US , Alison M. Scott, Associate University Librarian for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication, University of California, Los Angeles (4- or 6-year institutional term - TBD based on the number of High-Contributing Organizations )
Alison M. Scott is the Associate University Librarian for Collection Management & Scholarly Communication at the University of California, Los Angeles (her prior position was at UC, Riverside). Before coming to California in 2014, she held positions in a variety of academic libraries, including Head of Collection Development for the George Washington University Libraries, Charles Warren Bibliographer for American History at Harvard University, and Head of the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University. She holds master's degrees in religion and library science from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University. Her research interests center on the history of the book in the United States, including women’s reading in the Early Republic, story papers of the Civil War era, and the relationships between prestige and collection development in academic libraries.
Japan NII Consortia, Takashi Hikihara, Professor, Director General of Library Network, Kyoto University, Department of Electrical Engineering, (4- or 6-year institutional term - based on the number of High-Contributing Organizations)
He has been at Kyoto University since 1997 and is a full professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University. His research field is in nonlinear dynamics and its application, control and measurement, and power electronics. He is an author of more than 100 scientific and technical papers. He became the Deputy Director General of Library Network, Kyoto University on April 2011, and the Director General on Oct. 2012. As the Director, he led Kyoto University to declare Open Access Policy in 2015, which has impacted other institutes in Japan and invites them to green.
, and publications strategy, including ACM’s longterm transition to Open Access. Prior to joining ACM, Scott served in a number of senior and executive level management positions at Springer and Kluwer, including Vice President for Publishing and Vice President for Electronic Publishing at Kluwer Academic Publishers and Vice President for Business Development at Springer before leaving and joining ACM over a decade ago. In addition to his current role at ACM, Scott is actively involved in the governance of a number of the scholarly publishing industry’s most innovative and impactful non-profits, including Crossref, where Scott serves as the organization's Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors, CHORUS, where Scott serves as Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors, and as a Member of the Portico Advisory Committee.
University of California, US , Alison M. Scott, Associate University Librarian for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication, University of California, Los Angeles (4- or 6-year institutional term - TBD based on the number of High-Contributing Organizations )
Alison M. Scott is the Associate University Librarian for Collection Management & Scholarly Communication at the University of California, Los Angeles (her prior position was at UC, Riverside). Before coming to California in 2014, she held positions in a variety of academic libraries, including Head of Collection Development for the George Washington University Libraries, Charles Warren Bibliographer for American History at Harvard University, and Head of the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University. She holds master's degrees in religion and library science from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University. Her research interests center on the history of the book in the United States, including women’s reading in the Early Republic, story papers of the Civil War era, and the relationships between prestige and collection development in academic libraries.
Japan NII Consortia, Hideaki Takeda, Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII) , (4- or 6-year institutional term - based on the number of High-Contributing Organizations) Standing in for Professor Hikihara until September 2018: Hideaki Takeda, Professor, Computer Science National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Hideaki Takeda is a full professor in computer science at National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan. His research field is Artificial Intelligence, particularly Semantic Web and Social Media Analysis. He is an author of more than 100 papers in computer science. He has also worked for scholarly communication field by contributing design of scholarly communication services offered by NII and by serving as a representative of NII in the variety of domestic and international activities. He is currently the chair of Japan Link Center (DOI RA), the president of Research Data Utilization Forum, Japan, the chair of SPARC Japan, and was a board member of ORCID (2012-2016).
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